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Trusted by clients on some of the best teams in the world
From first-time managers to executives, whether you’re looking for a new opportunity, working on a promotion, or wanting to improve your executive presence, we’ll work together to understand your unique strengths and develop a path forward to help you achieve your career and life goals.
Our Approach
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Leadership Training
My leadership training integrates insights from Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, Gallup, PrinciplesYou, and many others. It focuses on improving your analytical, strategic, and leadership abilities in areas like hiring, management systems, and offer analysis.
Tailored Job Search Strategy
Our custom-built assessment tools help people understand their strengths, evaluate current and future employers, and define their career goals.
Optimized Resume and LinkedIn
We turn conversational interviews into resumes, LinkedIn profiles, candidate decks, and elevator pitches that are optimized to drive engagement, differentiation, and executive presence.
Interview Support
We provide continual 1:1 support throughout the interview process, providing you with guides, mock interview practice, and tactics to connect with your interviewers and advance in your career.
Negotiation Advisory
We provide offer analysis and negotiation advisory, including salary data, game theory and strategy support, and ghostwriting with recruiters and hiring managers to get you the best possible offer.
Employer Evaluation Package
Have a job, but feeling like something needs to change? Our Employer Evaluation survey and two 60-minute sessions will help give you clarity and determine a path forward.
Personality Assessment Package
If you’re currently unemployed or on the job hunt, this one's for you. Refresh your job search with two 60-minute sessions, a resume and LinkedIn review, and a best practices guide.
Executive Branding Suite
Our most popular offering features 8-10 hours of one-on-one sessions and spans personal branding, leadership development, interview training, network activation, and more.
Offer Advisory
Tailored one-on-one support to help you analyze and negotiate the best offer possible. Also includes negotiation strategies, ghostwriting, and terms of agreement.
Personalized Training and Packages
Services
Throughout my corporate recruiting career, I've witnessed firsthand the critical mistakes candidates make during the interview and offer negotiation process. This includes situations where C-level executives take the wrong offer, or leave significant compensation on the table because they didn't have a support team to help them develop a strategy to negotiate their offer.
That's why I started DLC – to leverage my insider knowledge, research in finance, psychology, economics, and expertise in offer negotiation to help people make better career decisions, elevate their leadership capabilities, and improve their financial outcomes. I’m passionate about helping people excel in their careers. I look forward to working together with you!
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What Our Clients
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“Derek helped me manage every element of my negotiation for my first CEO role. I couldn’t give him a higher recommendation if you are either evaluating a new offer or if you’re feeling stuck and want help repositioning yourself in the market.”
Ryan Adelman
CEO, Phoenix Energy Technologies
“I wholeheartedly recommend working with Derek if you need help with your career. Actually, especially — if you don’t think you need help. I always thought my resume was “good enough.” The one he wrote for me brought a tear to my eye. It tells my narrative perfectly and positions me for the career I want.”
Greg Forbes
Senior Director, Global Agency Partnerships, Yahoo
“Derek's breadth of experience in the biotech space is second to none. He helped me develop an authentic narrative as a senior leader, guiding me to a more senior role, and negotiated a 30% increase in total compensation.”
Jan Risinger
Senior Director of Scientific Strategy, Myriad Genetics
“Derek’s holistic approach had me really thinking about my skill sets and accomplishments as we developed my career story. That soul searching was invaluable in helping me understand myself better, what drives and motivates me and ultimately what I'm looking for in future opportunities.”
Deirdre McGlashan
Chief Marketing Officer, BrandGuard
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